Air seems to be clearing a bit here, too. Less ash, anyway. Supposedly there's gonna be about 1/10" of rain Saturday... which is less than half of what's required to qualify as a wetting rain. So, it'll pretty much immediately evaporate and drain and not affect fire behavior much. Lightning expected near the Cascade crest, but not in the lowlands. Army is activating 200 troops to go to the Umpqua or somewhere else in OR; saw them yesterday trying on their new crappy blue linegear. This probably means OR National Guard is tapped out. I don't know what WA National Guard is up to but if my experience with them in 2015 is any indication, they're kicking ass and taking names. Very professional and motivated lot, impressed me quite a bit.